Threads falling apart

ruby-talk
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Hi folks,

recently my NR often fails to put news threads together. Is it just my NR
or is there still something wrong with the News <-> Mail gateway?

I guess, connected with this are header lines that look like this (just an
excerpt)

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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 01:48:25 +0900
From: dblack@wobblini.net
Subject: Re: learning the "Ruby way"
Pine.LNX.4.44.0311201150530.4491-100000@ool-4355dfae.dyn.optonline.net
Pine.LNX.4.44.0311201137580.4435-100000@ool-4355dfae.dyn.optonline.net
X-ML-Name: ruby-talk
X-Mail-Count: 85850
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT
X-rubymirror: yes
Message-ID: BOCdnQRLEo3lbSGiRVn-jA@august.net

The subject like looks a bit odd to me, especially the <Pine…> items are
unlikely to belong there. Maybe some header line is missing there?

Good night

robert
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recently my NR often fails to put news threads together. Is it just my NR
or is there still something wrong with the News <-> Mail gateway?

Probably a problem with the gateway

Subject: Re: learning the "Ruby way"
<Pine.LNX.4.44.0311201150530.4491-100000@ool-4355dfae.dyn.optonline.net>
<Pine.LNX.4.44.0311201137580.4435-100000@ool-4355dfae.dyn.optonline.net>

The original message is

Message-Id:
<Pine.LNX.4.44.0311201150530.4491-100000@ool-4355dfae.dyn.optonline.net>
In-Reply-To:
<Pine.LNX.4.44.0311201137580.4435-100000@ool-4355dfae.dyn.optonline.net>

See the newline after Message-Id: and In-Reply-To:

Guy Decoux

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Subject: Re: learning the "Ruby way"
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)

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“ts” wrote:

recently my NR often fails to put news threads together. Is it just my NR
or is there still something wrong with the News ↔ Mail gateway?

Probably a problem with the gateway

See the newline after Message-Id: and In-Reply-To:

Guy Decoux

Right. The format is valid but presents an edge case.

<From RFC 2822 - Internet Message Format (RFC2822) >
2.1.1. Line Length Limits
Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters,
and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding the CRLF.
</>

Message id’s can be long and can’t wrap, so the mail agent raising
the problem has given the best possible chance of avoiding a
“disastrous wrap” by starting with a CRLF.

Meanwhile everyone else’s mail/news agents are flouting the
recommendations by sending lines of more than 78 characters
without a care in the world.

IMHO they’re lucky that email isn’t transmitted on punch cards.

Herr Oelkers will look into it :slight_smile:

daz